The Delaware City news. (Delaware City, Del.) 188?-18??, 1887-07-09

helll Nv ina eaaesieFa-i .,-i-rt,s--
the life 10 me, for was too worn out for
the washn' So got basket an filled
it with apples an paynuts an wint roun'
to the offices to sell 'em. AM did well,
too, The young clarks'd buy the apples
sometimes, an the janitors am office b'ys
the paynuts, an made out to pay the
rint of my room an to get the bite an
the sup.
Wan day whin KEN home Mrs. Fin
nerty, who lived on the flure below an
whose husband is brick mason, sez to
me, sez She. "Did you hear that noise las
night o groanin' in the room back o.
yeY' u didn't, sez I, ''av it was in the
night fol ] slapo sound 'sWell, . she
sez, OTIS The gerril that runs the sewin'
machine, she sez Han' she's sick an I've
been therf to-day, an Will ye help little
to-nightg she Ss2, f'fnr I've, the baby TO
mind . Il will n sez /, az did The
gerrirs name was Cherry Bashford, an
dacent She was for lone, dissholute
orfian, an kept herself alone an meddled
an made wild no wan. THE doctor KEN,
an she soon got well o. the cold an the
faver, an she an got quite friendly,
though she was lady bred, poor as she
was, any one could see that, an as for
beauty, the ladies ye see in them carriages
on the strates couldn't hould a candle to
her. An she always called me Mrs. Nc
Avoy. 1t was never "Biddyn wild her,
sir, which Is not the way to spake to a
wildly wild u good character.
We got quite frien'ly, as 1 said, an wan
day ] said to her, sez l, miss Bashford,
you 10 be lonely up there in yer room,n
sez, "an' what'd all ye about movin' your
machine into my room-theres dure
betuno US, and ye'd be company sez 1.
Butt Gez she ''though I'm much
obliged to ye, ] won't; but wen kape the
dure open in daytime, an III kape an eye
on your room whin yer away So
frien'lg did wc sit, am she a born lady,
as / saici before.
Won day KEN to this very buildin'
wild py basSet, AM in | goes to wan Office
an auusa A n to Mr. GHskelrs, him
NJ n = bthidiif aas known by
the clarke who always bought from me,
an Master George. the masters only son,
THOUGH he was q sort of head clark, would
buy hko the rest and he had great
habit Of jokin' with me. But that day
the ovid elntlemin happened to hear him
In his office, an he KEN out in a high
timper an SEE he tonne, HYou kape out
o. here wild your basket for you day.
moralize the clerks from their business. ~
AS YOU lllttAef oCA - bONAA N-AOAShi
though it was two dollars week out O.
my pocket, an ont I wint. Master
George, he was angry, an gev me q
quarter, an said he'd buy Of me whin he
had chance And was so flurried wild
the cantankerous ovid gintleman-but it's
a good man he is, for all that-that
dropped cross that l keep about me fol
luck-it KEN from Rome am was blessed
by tho holy father himself, an 1 nivei
missed it till got home.
had just got of the dishes from the
table, an was clearin' up from my bit o.
tay, an Miss Bashford, who had come il
from her room, was talkin, wild me, whir
ther was a rap at the dure, - whin
said wCorne srr ,.no should march intt
.i.s .oonl but George, as bovild as brass
wild my cross. ''You dropped this in thu
Office, y he saz, TAM as knew where "
lived thought I'D bring il to yei AM
wild that he stared like stuck pig at Mis-
Bashford, an, ye may behave me, whin
looked at her she was as white as th'
wall, "cherryr' SEE he. ''Mr. Gaskell,